Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In their pursuit of growth and diversification, African economies should consider transforming the discourse from a focus on industrialisation to a broader… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously.… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
“professions of farming and medicine grew out of a shared goal: to sustain individuals and communities by supporting the workings of nature… — Daphne Miller M.D Copy Share Image
We have to try to convince everybody in America, that if you eat you're involved in agriculture. That the shirts don't just… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
More and more agricultural land is being used for non-agricultural purposes. Whether it's any industry, express highway, or expansion of any city,… — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What's wrong with… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
There are hundreds, even thousands of remarkable pilot or experimental projects in all fields - in agriculture, health, education. But where do… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to… — Salva Kiir Mayardit Copy Share Image
China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building… — Carl G. Fisher Copy Share Image
Our farmers feed the world. They are up before dawn and work till well after sunset. They face any number of challenges… — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image